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SPOILER Post-Apocolyptic or New Galaxy Status Quo

Discussion in 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' started by Pastor Barndog, Oct 23, 2015.

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    So as long as I have been following things closely. The assumption and much of the speculation has been that the Galaxy is stuck in a new Status Quo Cold War type scenario and the events we are witnessing are the break down of the Cold War into full blown Galactic struggle.

    Recently two things have challenged that idea for me. They might not have convinced me things are different but they have made me wonder. Are we witnessing a Post-Apocalyptic Galaxy. No government beyond fiefdoms or warlords. No order, no unity. With perhaps one of many powerful warlords is Snoke.

    1-The first thing that made me think things was the MSW article about Jakku being run by a leader who controls people through water rations.

    2- The second is the picture of the KOR from the trailer. They are giving me more a gang of fighters perhaps loyal to Ren.

    This made me wonder if the Galaxy was more chaos than order. Is everything in ruins except areas under total domination of the First Order or points of light like the Resistance.
     
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    I am surethere isa new Republic, and many imperial pockets, and the hutts still around... nothing is quite as bloated and big as the Republic or Old Republic once were.

    Lots of little places in between ignored.
     
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    My current thinking is that the galaxy is more democratic now, the flip-side of which is very scarce replublic involvement in how plantes choose run themselves, which again means local warlords and dictators do what they want. It's a big government vs. small government thing, I think, and the galaxy therefore stuggles under a wannabe good guy New Republic reluctant to intervene in the abuses going in the Outer Rim Territories.
     
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    Between the water rationing and the crazy Knights of Ren looking like a well armed street gang from "Warriors" I was starting to wonder if it was moving from a new big political war in space to a Mad Max style space opera.
     
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    Even with the Republic at its height, however, there was still lawlessness on Tattooine and many other fringe worlds. I don't think anything we've been shown changes that or indicates that the galaxy is any more or less orderly than it was in the past.
     
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